Word: sightedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On the third day Pilot Louis Leigh of Maritime Airways Co. of Sydney flew his seaplane low over the muddy waters of Cobequid Bay, sighted the wreckage of the mail plane floating bottom-side-up. On the fifth day he spotted the body of Pilot Simon, red with Cobequid mud...
Heads were sagely wagged on both sides of the Pacific Ocean last week when it became evident that Pilots Don Moyle and Cecil A. Allen had failed in their attempt to fly from Samishiro Beach, Japan to Seattle. Many & many a prophet could say "I told you so." The orange...
Stoop-shouldered, near-sighted Julius Karolyi was born in Nyir-Bator 60 years ago. He is a second cousin of stuttering Count Michael Karolyi whose ineffectual Republic was overthrown by the mon strous Bela Kun in 1919, who made U. S. headlines when the State Department denied him a visa...
Northeast Passage (Cont'd). Pilot Parker ("Shorty") Cramer and Radioman Oliver Pacquette had just started the motor of their Bellanca seaplane and were taxiing across the little harbor of Lerwick, Shetland Islands, when a messenger came running down the waterfront, waving a yellow paper. It was a warning of...
From Berlin the Graf resumed flight (her 202nd) to Leningrad, thence pushed on toward the island of Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land, where philatelists' mail was to be exchanged with the Russian icebreaker Malygin. Unless further unknown land were sighted, Dr. Eckener did not intend to push farther...